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List of stolen Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed before 🇮🇱 independence, date of expulsion, 1945 population, & Jewish villages on top of them
Al-Mas'udiyya (Jaffa) - 25 Dec 1947 - Pop: 986 - Now Tel Aviv
Al-Muwaylih (Jaffa) - 31 Dec 1947 - Pop: 418 - Now Neve Yarak
Al-Mas'udiyya (Jaffa) - 25 Dec 1947 - Pop: 986 - Now Tel Aviv
Al-Muwaylih (Jaffa) - 31 Dec 1947 - Pop: 418 - Now Neve Yarak
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(this list is non-exhaustive, to be clear)
Mansurat al-Khayt (Safad) - 18 Jan 1948 - Pop: 232 - Now Kfar Hanassi
Qumbaza (Haifa) - 15 Feb 1948 - Pop: 1114 - Now Kerem Maharal
Wadi Ara (Haifa) - 27 Feb 1948 - Pop: 267 - Now Ein Iron, Barkai
Mansurat al-Khayt (Safad) - 18 Jan 1948 - Pop: 232 - Now Kfar Hanassi
Qumbaza (Haifa) - 15 Feb 1948 - Pop: 1114 - Now Kerem Maharal
Wadi Ara (Haifa) - 27 Feb 1948 - Pop: 267 - Now Ein Iron, Barkai
Short thread on an academic paper I just learned about, authored by a Canadian student, Omar Al-Samadi.
1/ The title of the paper is: Killing the Archive Twice: Epistemicide, Platform Censorship, and Archival Resistance from Gaza to the World
1/ The title of the paper is: Killing the Archive Twice: Epistemicide, Platform Censorship, and Archival Resistance from Gaza to the World
2/ The paper begins with a beautiful dedication.
3/ The section "Archival Solidarity as Decolonial Praxis" includes a non-trivial section on @databases4pal.
The most unseen privilege in life is a supportive family.
How it impacts every aspect of your life:
How it impacts every aspect of your life:
Being born into a supportive family means your immune system and nervous system function better.
It means you get a head start at recovering from stress, and learning how to cope.
The Declaration and the “all men” clause.
On the American conservative/right-wing, there’s four general views of the “American creed” clause in the Declaration. I’ll summarize them as succinctly as possible.
The first is the postwar consensus view, which is the tradition of Harry Jaffa’s neo-Lincolnian model. This says that the “all men” clause says exactly what we all take it to mean today, but it didn’t have its fruition until Lincoln, and then the Progressive movement, and finally in the Civil Rights Movement. It is an individualist, universalist, and pre-society view of individual man and his rights. It posits that America is a special and glorious place because of this creed.
The second is what I will call the Young Right view. This says that above model is basically correct, but it’s a major weakness of America and it needs to be corrected: Men are NOT equal and the Declaration has led us down a path that is destroying us. We need to abandon it totally.
The problem with the first view is that it reads more modern individualist-universalism back into the eighteenth century. It also fails to adequately take into account that the Founders did not consider blacks culturally or anthropologically deserving of rights, nor did they consider the pre-Americans Indians (described as Savages) worthy of being part of the American order. This view asks of us that we see these brilliant philosophically inclined founders as simply unaware of the contradiction between their lofty philosophy and their actual politics.
The problem with the second view is common (much to my constant frustration) among those circles: it adopts the liberal interpretation of America in order to be “based” in its reaction and subsequently rejects the American tradition. It’s also ahistoric, and abandons the greatness of our people and heritage.
Now we touch on the two “historicist” views, as opposed to the above idealist views.
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On the American conservative/right-wing, there’s four general views of the “American creed” clause in the Declaration. I’ll summarize them as succinctly as possible.
The first is the postwar consensus view, which is the tradition of Harry Jaffa’s neo-Lincolnian model. This says that the “all men” clause says exactly what we all take it to mean today, but it didn’t have its fruition until Lincoln, and then the Progressive movement, and finally in the Civil Rights Movement. It is an individualist, universalist, and pre-society view of individual man and his rights. It posits that America is a special and glorious place because of this creed.
The second is what I will call the Young Right view. This says that above model is basically correct, but it’s a major weakness of America and it needs to be corrected: Men are NOT equal and the Declaration has led us down a path that is destroying us. We need to abandon it totally.
The problem with the first view is that it reads more modern individualist-universalism back into the eighteenth century. It also fails to adequately take into account that the Founders did not consider blacks culturally or anthropologically deserving of rights, nor did they consider the pre-Americans Indians (described as Savages) worthy of being part of the American order. This view asks of us that we see these brilliant philosophically inclined founders as simply unaware of the contradiction between their lofty philosophy and their actual politics.
The problem with the second view is common (much to my constant frustration) among those circles: it adopts the liberal interpretation of America in order to be “based” in its reaction and subsequently rejects the American tradition. It’s also ahistoric, and abandons the greatness of our people and heritage.
Now we touch on the two “historicist” views, as opposed to the above idealist views.
1/3
There is a third view which is closer to my view, but not quite there. This view was held by conservatives like Russell Kirk. Essentially, the view is that the Declaration was a strategic political document intended to inspire the support of the French in a contest against the British. French human rights philosophy spoke in lofty idealist terms, much like the Declaration, written of course by the Francophile deist Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration was not meant to be taken absolutely literally (after all, over half its signers were slaveholders and aristocratic anti-equalitarians), because it was a political document whose focus was on drumming up American and French support against England.
This view is on the right track—it wisely takes a contextual and politically particularist lens to the problem—and has some truth to it. But my view is the fourth, put forward by people like Mel Bradford, Richard Weaver, and other more Southern scholars who leaned on a deeply historicist view of the American Revolution. This is the paleoconservative view and it stresses the Conservative, aristocratic nature of the American moment over against the Jacobin French mind.
This final view, which I’ll dub to corporate-historicist view, was essentially that this document needs expository engagement in a sort of grammatical-historical exegetical process. I don’t have space for a full synopsis, but the essential point is that the entire document takes place in the philosophical world of eighteenth century colonial America, where society wasn’t understood as a collection of unbound individuals, but as collections of Peoples.
The first paragraph engages in the problem of what must be done when a people (a collectivity) want to dissolve political bands (not when individuals want to sever themselves from the state). It states strongly that the “one people” are aiming to “assume” their “separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature… entitle them.” This corporate synopsis of rights and natural law sets the context and groundwork for what comes next. All communities of men, according to the Declaration, have the unalienable rights to the “separate and equal station.” The Americans also have the Right, as a “one People” to set their own path. They are not to be seen as having an inferior claim to their Rights as compared to the British.
Following the creedal statement, the Declaration shifts deeper into the collective language of the American people’s need, as a people, to disconnect themselves from the Government that breached these Rights. In other words, Bradford makes the argument—following Roger Taney, Jefferson Davis, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, and the contemporary French observer Marquis de Chastellux—that it’s an inappropriate imputation of modern rights theory to suppose that the Declaration arbitrarily jumps from a corporate view of men and rights to an individualist view of men and rights and then back to a collective view.
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This view is on the right track—it wisely takes a contextual and politically particularist lens to the problem—and has some truth to it. But my view is the fourth, put forward by people like Mel Bradford, Richard Weaver, and other more Southern scholars who leaned on a deeply historicist view of the American Revolution. This is the paleoconservative view and it stresses the Conservative, aristocratic nature of the American moment over against the Jacobin French mind.
This final view, which I’ll dub to corporate-historicist view, was essentially that this document needs expository engagement in a sort of grammatical-historical exegetical process. I don’t have space for a full synopsis, but the essential point is that the entire document takes place in the philosophical world of eighteenth century colonial America, where society wasn’t understood as a collection of unbound individuals, but as collections of Peoples.
The first paragraph engages in the problem of what must be done when a people (a collectivity) want to dissolve political bands (not when individuals want to sever themselves from the state). It states strongly that the “one people” are aiming to “assume” their “separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature… entitle them.” This corporate synopsis of rights and natural law sets the context and groundwork for what comes next. All communities of men, according to the Declaration, have the unalienable rights to the “separate and equal station.” The Americans also have the Right, as a “one People” to set their own path. They are not to be seen as having an inferior claim to their Rights as compared to the British.
Following the creedal statement, the Declaration shifts deeper into the collective language of the American people’s need, as a people, to disconnect themselves from the Government that breached these Rights. In other words, Bradford makes the argument—following Roger Taney, Jefferson Davis, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, and the contemporary French observer Marquis de Chastellux—that it’s an inappropriate imputation of modern rights theory to suppose that the Declaration arbitrarily jumps from a corporate view of men and rights to an individualist view of men and rights and then back to a collective view.
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The modern historian Jack Rakove explains this quite well:
“When Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” in the preamble to the Declaration, he was not talking about individual equality. What he really meant was that the American colonists, as a people, had the same rights of self-government as other peoples, and hence could declare independence, create new governments and assume their “separate and equal station” among other nations. But after the Revolution succeeded, Americans began reading that famous phrase another way. It now became a statement of individual equality that everyone and every member of a deprived group could claim for himself or herself. With each passing generation, our notion of who that statement covers has expanded.”
It is absolutely vital that we rethink the prevailing model of the Declaration. It is a constant trump card used to facilitate the liquidation of our heritage and our identity as a people. Even though it has no legal bearing at all, nobody’s allowed to interpret America except as a zone for individuals to do whatever they want. The eradication of our way of life and the recovery of our nation is built on this absurd Propositionalism.
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“When Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” in the preamble to the Declaration, he was not talking about individual equality. What he really meant was that the American colonists, as a people, had the same rights of self-government as other peoples, and hence could declare independence, create new governments and assume their “separate and equal station” among other nations. But after the Revolution succeeded, Americans began reading that famous phrase another way. It now became a statement of individual equality that everyone and every member of a deprived group could claim for himself or herself. With each passing generation, our notion of who that statement covers has expanded.”
It is absolutely vital that we rethink the prevailing model of the Declaration. It is a constant trump card used to facilitate the liquidation of our heritage and our identity as a people. Even though it has no legal bearing at all, nobody’s allowed to interpret America except as a zone for individuals to do whatever they want. The eradication of our way of life and the recovery of our nation is built on this absurd Propositionalism.
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Learn one Arabic root and you'll understand the most repeated word in the entire Quran.
The root is q-w-l (ق-و-ل).
It appears 1,722 times across the Quran. In over 40 different forms.
That's more than any other root in the Book.
Here's what makes it unreal.
The root is q-w-l (ق-و-ل).
It appears 1,722 times across the Quran. In over 40 different forms.
That's more than any other root in the Book.
Here's what makes it unreal.
The core meaning of q-w-l (ق-و-ل) is speech. Saying. Expression.
But Arabic doesn't just give you one version of "say." It gives you a different form for every person, every tense, and every situation.
From 3 letters, the Quran builds an entire language of speech.
But Arabic doesn't just give you one version of "say." It gives you a different form for every person, every tense, and every situation.
From 3 letters, the Quran builds an entire language of speech.
The past. Who said it?
qaala (قال) = he said
qaalat (قالت) = she said
qaaluu (قالوا) = they said
qaalaa (قالا) = they both said (two people)
qulta (قلت) = you said
qultum (قلتم) = you all said
qultu (قلت) = I said
qulnaa (قلنا) = we said
8 forms. One root. You already know who spoke, how many of them there were, and whether you're included. No extra words needed.
qaala (قال) = he said
qaalat (قالت) = she said
qaaluu (قالوا) = they said
qaalaa (قالا) = they both said (two people)
qulta (قلت) = you said
qultum (قلتم) = you all said
qultu (قلت) = I said
qulnaa (قلنا) = we said
8 forms. One root. You already know who spoke, how many of them there were, and whether you're included. No extra words needed.
Serhii “Flash” clarifies new Russian tactics that combine “Geran-2” attacks on Ukrainian air defense units while another UAV simultaneously strikes the main target.
First, a “Gerbera” reconnaissance UAV studies the air defenses to determine their movements and locations.
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First, a “Gerbera” reconnaissance UAV studies the air defenses to determine their movements and locations.
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Then, a double strike is applied—one Geran-2 strikes and distracts the ground-based air defenses, while another attacks the target.
“Flash” advises using camouflage, changing to backup positions, and closely monitoring reconnaissance UAV flights.
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“Flash” advises using camouflage, changing to backup positions, and closely monitoring reconnaissance UAV flights.
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While the crew is engaged in targeting, the radar must be monitored closely for other UAVs nearby.
It is important not to fire too early or ineffectively, as this can prematurely reveal the defensive position.
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It is important not to fire too early or ineffectively, as this can prematurely reveal the defensive position.
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My spidey senses are tingling just like they were in January of 2020, and I think I’ve finally (mostly) pieced together why they’re tingling.
I want to preface this post by saying none of this is meant to be conveyed in a spirit of fear. It’s all about offers and consent. I simply see converging lines creating conditions where choices regarding the offers put forth—and withdrawing consent related to them—will become increasingly tricky and challenging. This is especially true because so many of us have become reliant on “the system” in so many facets of life.
With that said, I firmly believe that if we trust in God, collaborate in our local communities, cultivate more resiliency and inter-autonomy (self-governance and relative self-sufficiency while still depending on each other in community), and reconnect with the natural world and the deepest parts of ourselves, we will be more than okay—we will thrive. We have the power and authority to actualize Christ’s kingdom here. We will create pockets of the beautiful world our hearts know is possible across the Earth. And while that knowing is firmly rooted in me, what’s also true is that…
Over the last 5 years, America has lost roughly 150,000 independent family farms.
In the last year, US Chapter 12 family farm bankruptcies have surged by 46%, while sector-wide agricultural debt has climbed to a record-breaking $624.7 billion.
Climatologists (not that I lend a lot of credence to what they say…) are expecting a record-breaking Super El Niño that could trigger severe weather patterns across the world, which would severely impact crop yields. We can only speculate on whether this is due to naturally occurring cycles in this realm, geoengineering, the collective’s emotional state (weather = we-aether), or somewhere in between. I tend to think it’s all of it, but that’s total speculation. I am not advocating for worrying about this, but rather having awareness of what is being stated and projected. We need to know that our individual and collective state of Being influences what IS at any given time. Weather = water-based phenomena. Think Veda Austin & Dr. Gerald Pollack.
Because of the nonsensical US-Israel-Iran war (which has nothing whatsoever to do with preventing Iran from obtaining nukes), the Strait of Hormuz closure has choked vital shipping transits. This has effectively stranded 1/3 of synthetic fertilizers alongside half of the world's sulfur and nitrogen feedstocks that American growers completely rely on to maintain their harvests. Yes, I agree that the synthetic stuff is bad, but unfortunately, it’s what farmers currently rely on. When a large chunk of it is cut off that quickly, food supply issues become a very real problem.
In addition, due to this nonsensical US-Israel-Iran war, jet fuel prices are skyrocketing, causing a looming crude oil shortage that is draining millions of barrels from worldwide inventories every single day.
All of this is happening while domestic utility grids and water tables face unprecedented strain from a massive, accelerated buildout of AI data centers. This is draining the energy grid and causing electricity demand to skyrocket by 17% in a single year, while also polluting local water supplies as data center cooling systems suck up tens of billions of gallons of groundwater from already depleted aquifers.
And it’s not that there is a genuine, naturally occurring “shortage” of oil, gas, food, or water anywhere. Nature is abundant and self-regenerating. It’s that, due to the converging lines of resource control and hoarding, massive farm failure, land purchases, divide-and-conquer tactics, the Hegelian dialectic, technocratic advancements, and psychological warfare, Agenda 2030 is marching on.
arbon tracking, rolling blackouts, energy quotas, restricted travel, and a total reliance on "the system," so to speak.
This is a textbook example of the Hegelian Dialectic at play.
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I want to preface this post by saying none of this is meant to be conveyed in a spirit of fear. It’s all about offers and consent. I simply see converging lines creating conditions where choices regarding the offers put forth—and withdrawing consent related to them—will become increasingly tricky and challenging. This is especially true because so many of us have become reliant on “the system” in so many facets of life.
With that said, I firmly believe that if we trust in God, collaborate in our local communities, cultivate more resiliency and inter-autonomy (self-governance and relative self-sufficiency while still depending on each other in community), and reconnect with the natural world and the deepest parts of ourselves, we will be more than okay—we will thrive. We have the power and authority to actualize Christ’s kingdom here. We will create pockets of the beautiful world our hearts know is possible across the Earth. And while that knowing is firmly rooted in me, what’s also true is that…
Over the last 5 years, America has lost roughly 150,000 independent family farms.
In the last year, US Chapter 12 family farm bankruptcies have surged by 46%, while sector-wide agricultural debt has climbed to a record-breaking $624.7 billion.
Climatologists (not that I lend a lot of credence to what they say…) are expecting a record-breaking Super El Niño that could trigger severe weather patterns across the world, which would severely impact crop yields. We can only speculate on whether this is due to naturally occurring cycles in this realm, geoengineering, the collective’s emotional state (weather = we-aether), or somewhere in between. I tend to think it’s all of it, but that’s total speculation. I am not advocating for worrying about this, but rather having awareness of what is being stated and projected. We need to know that our individual and collective state of Being influences what IS at any given time. Weather = water-based phenomena. Think Veda Austin & Dr. Gerald Pollack.
Because of the nonsensical US-Israel-Iran war (which has nothing whatsoever to do with preventing Iran from obtaining nukes), the Strait of Hormuz closure has choked vital shipping transits. This has effectively stranded 1/3 of synthetic fertilizers alongside half of the world's sulfur and nitrogen feedstocks that American growers completely rely on to maintain their harvests. Yes, I agree that the synthetic stuff is bad, but unfortunately, it’s what farmers currently rely on. When a large chunk of it is cut off that quickly, food supply issues become a very real problem.
In addition, due to this nonsensical US-Israel-Iran war, jet fuel prices are skyrocketing, causing a looming crude oil shortage that is draining millions of barrels from worldwide inventories every single day.
All of this is happening while domestic utility grids and water tables face unprecedented strain from a massive, accelerated buildout of AI data centers. This is draining the energy grid and causing electricity demand to skyrocket by 17% in a single year, while also polluting local water supplies as data center cooling systems suck up tens of billions of gallons of groundwater from already depleted aquifers.
And it’s not that there is a genuine, naturally occurring “shortage” of oil, gas, food, or water anywhere. Nature is abundant and self-regenerating. It’s that, due to the converging lines of resource control and hoarding, massive farm failure, land purchases, divide-and-conquer tactics, the Hegelian dialectic, technocratic advancements, and psychological warfare, Agenda 2030 is marching on.
arbon tracking, rolling blackouts, energy quotas, restricted travel, and a total reliance on "the system," so to speak.
This is a textbook example of the Hegelian Dialectic at play.
(1/3)
I doubt it’ll look like “you’ll lose your ability to travel if you say _____ online,” and more like “you’ll lose your ability to get a job if you say _____ online.” In an already horrible job market, that makes it impossible to pay for what you need, which will have already become wildly expensive. For those who struggle to make ends meet, a UBI with expiration dates (use it or lose it) and geofencing (only available for use in certain areas) will be offered. And it’ll be directly tied to your compliance levels on a variety of things the government deems necessary for “safety and security” at that time.
These are all “offers” that ultimately require some form of our consent.
Okay… whew. So what’s the solution, as I see it?
It’s ironically what we’d benefit from doing whether or not all of these potentials pan out. Grow your own food as best you can, store shelf-stable food if you feel called to, get chickens if you can, build a rainwater catchment system, look into non-electric, gravity-fed alternatives for water filtration, and look at alternative energy sources to power your home. Support local businesses, form real, like-minded local relationships, form local seed-sharing groups, form barter and trade networks, learn useful hands-on skills, and form tight-knit local communities that understand the importance of inter-autonomy. Consider investing in tangible, useful assets if you have the means to. And MOST importantly, trust God, talk to God regularly, sit in stillness, know yourself more deeply, and really SEE the precious people around you.
If you don't know where to start finding people in your area who care about these things, we built a digital directory over at TheWayFwrd.com. We have over 2,500 members helping each other locate like-minded health and freedom folks, practitioners, local farms, alternative schools, and parallel networks in their zip codes. It's there as a tool for anyone ready to step off the grid of dependency.
If you follow me, you may be asking—“Alec, by focusing on this, aren’t you helping to energize these potentials?” No, and if you received it that way, that is not my intention. But I cannot deny what I’m feeling intuitively. Could I be wrong? Of course.
I really like the mindset of “be aware, but not consumed.” Aware means you understand what others are (very actively) co-creating. But to be consumed means you’re actively feeding it with continual thought, time, and perpetual fear. I choose the former. In fact, when exploring all of this and writing this piece, I am not at all fearful. I have a deep trust in God and my abilities to do what’s called of me with whatever situation arises. You might find this analogy helpful:
As a former pro athlete, I know the most important aspect of your game is your mental, emotional, and spiritual state. By far. AND, with that said, that doesn’t mean you aren’t watching film on the other team, structuring your defense toward what they’re bringing to the field, structuring your offense based on holes in their defense, and practicing and adjusting your game based on all that you know about what they bring to the field. The preparation metaphysically is most important, the preparation physically is secondarily important, and the context of what you’ll meet on the field is important as well.
I’m reminded of the scene in the original Space Jam where Bill Murray and some Looney Toons decided not to “dwell” on the upcoming basketball match against the MonSTARS. Their lack of focus did not stop these monsters from doing what they were always gonna do. So let the Michael Jordan in you be mindful and practicing the fundamentals, and maybe we can win this “game.”
And with that, the reality is, we can look at all of this as a gift and as a necessity, just like SCHMOVID (also known by some as “COVID”). Was it traumatic? Yes. Was it challenging? Yes. Was it all of those things we assign “negative” attributes and characteristics to? Yes, yes, yes.
(2/3)
These are all “offers” that ultimately require some form of our consent.
Okay… whew. So what’s the solution, as I see it?
It’s ironically what we’d benefit from doing whether or not all of these potentials pan out. Grow your own food as best you can, store shelf-stable food if you feel called to, get chickens if you can, build a rainwater catchment system, look into non-electric, gravity-fed alternatives for water filtration, and look at alternative energy sources to power your home. Support local businesses, form real, like-minded local relationships, form local seed-sharing groups, form barter and trade networks, learn useful hands-on skills, and form tight-knit local communities that understand the importance of inter-autonomy. Consider investing in tangible, useful assets if you have the means to. And MOST importantly, trust God, talk to God regularly, sit in stillness, know yourself more deeply, and really SEE the precious people around you.
If you don't know where to start finding people in your area who care about these things, we built a digital directory over at TheWayFwrd.com. We have over 2,500 members helping each other locate like-minded health and freedom folks, practitioners, local farms, alternative schools, and parallel networks in their zip codes. It's there as a tool for anyone ready to step off the grid of dependency.
If you follow me, you may be asking—“Alec, by focusing on this, aren’t you helping to energize these potentials?” No, and if you received it that way, that is not my intention. But I cannot deny what I’m feeling intuitively. Could I be wrong? Of course.
I really like the mindset of “be aware, but not consumed.” Aware means you understand what others are (very actively) co-creating. But to be consumed means you’re actively feeding it with continual thought, time, and perpetual fear. I choose the former. In fact, when exploring all of this and writing this piece, I am not at all fearful. I have a deep trust in God and my abilities to do what’s called of me with whatever situation arises. You might find this analogy helpful:
As a former pro athlete, I know the most important aspect of your game is your mental, emotional, and spiritual state. By far. AND, with that said, that doesn’t mean you aren’t watching film on the other team, structuring your defense toward what they’re bringing to the field, structuring your offense based on holes in their defense, and practicing and adjusting your game based on all that you know about what they bring to the field. The preparation metaphysically is most important, the preparation physically is secondarily important, and the context of what you’ll meet on the field is important as well.
I’m reminded of the scene in the original Space Jam where Bill Murray and some Looney Toons decided not to “dwell” on the upcoming basketball match against the MonSTARS. Their lack of focus did not stop these monsters from doing what they were always gonna do. So let the Michael Jordan in you be mindful and practicing the fundamentals, and maybe we can win this “game.”
And with that, the reality is, we can look at all of this as a gift and as a necessity, just like SCHMOVID (also known by some as “COVID”). Was it traumatic? Yes. Was it challenging? Yes. Was it all of those things we assign “negative” attributes and characteristics to? Yes, yes, yes.
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AND it was an incredible gift for those who recognized it as a catalyst for transmutation. I could go on and on about how much better my life has gotten since 2020.
This 2030-esque situation—and any other facet of the various agendas—is no different. They are gifts. So many of us have consistently traded in what’s right, natural, true and beautiful for what’s safe, convenient, and comfortable. We have become so overly reliant on these centralized systems, massive supply chains, and modern technology. It has arguably been (mostly) to the detriment of our relationships with ourselves, our families, our local communities, the natural world, and God (very generally stated, but overwhelmingly true).
So, how will the immediate future pan out? I don’t know. But I have developed such a deep trust in God that I am not worried about what’s to come. I really like this Rudolf Steiner quote sent to do me by my friend, Tom Lomenzo:
A Verse for Our Time, We must eradicate from the soul
All fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future.
We must acquire serenity, In all feelings and sensations about the future.
We must look forward with absolute equanimity, To everything that may come.
And we must think only that whatever comes, Is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom.
It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust,
Without any security in existence. Trust in the ever present help,
Of the spiritual world. Truly, nothing else will do If our courage is not to fail us.
And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves—Every morning and every evening.
As always, take what resonates and leave what doesn’t. In either case, I’m confident that whatever’s coming is a gift, and we’ll look back with gratitude for what we’ve been through to get back to what it means to be a human being in deep relationship with God, other human beings, and the natural world around us.
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This 2030-esque situation—and any other facet of the various agendas—is no different. They are gifts. So many of us have consistently traded in what’s right, natural, true and beautiful for what’s safe, convenient, and comfortable. We have become so overly reliant on these centralized systems, massive supply chains, and modern technology. It has arguably been (mostly) to the detriment of our relationships with ourselves, our families, our local communities, the natural world, and God (very generally stated, but overwhelmingly true).
So, how will the immediate future pan out? I don’t know. But I have developed such a deep trust in God that I am not worried about what’s to come. I really like this Rudolf Steiner quote sent to do me by my friend, Tom Lomenzo:
A Verse for Our Time, We must eradicate from the soul
All fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future.
We must acquire serenity, In all feelings and sensations about the future.
We must look forward with absolute equanimity, To everything that may come.
And we must think only that whatever comes, Is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom.
It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust,
Without any security in existence. Trust in the ever present help,
Of the spiritual world. Truly, nothing else will do If our courage is not to fail us.
And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves—Every morning and every evening.
As always, take what resonates and leave what doesn’t. In either case, I’m confident that whatever’s coming is a gift, and we’ll look back with gratitude for what we’ve been through to get back to what it means to be a human being in deep relationship with God, other human beings, and the natural world around us.
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1/11 Misinformed claims are circulating about the legality of Israel’s interception of the “Global Sumud Flotilla” on 30 April 2026.
2/11 The UN Secretary-General’s Palmer Panel concluded in 2011 that Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza was a legitimate security measure and complied with international law. unispal.un.org/pdfs/GazaFloti…
3/11 Under the San Remo Manual, vessels breaching or attempting to breach a lawful blockade may be captured. Where vessels resist capture after warning, further enforcement measures may follow. The Flotilla publicly stated that its mission was to “break Israel’s illegal siege”. iihl.org/wp-content/upl…
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These last 2 months, Ukraine 🇺🇦 dug 1 300 km of fortifications from Kyiv to Odesa
In the eastern part of the country, the AFU can now rely on 2 to 6 defensive lines, with kilometers of obstacle lines extending behind the front.
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In the eastern part of the country, the AFU can now rely on 2 to 6 defensive lines, with kilometers of obstacle lines extending behind the front.
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When we talked about fortifications in Ukraine from 2014 to 2024, we were talking about those large trenches in the middle of the fields.
Drone war has made those completely obsolete. I put here famous ones, try to find where they are :
Drone war has made those completely obsolete. I put here famous ones, try to find where they are :
Today's fortifications are much different. The priority is not to hide soldiers, but to prevent the ennemy from advancing.
That's why those new defensive lines are composed of 3 anti-vehicle ditches filled with anti-infantry barbed wire and multiple barbed wire lines.
That's why those new defensive lines are composed of 3 anti-vehicle ditches filled with anti-infantry barbed wire and multiple barbed wire lines.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote:
"Shavuot.
Chag Shavuot Sameach.
The core of this holiday is the reading of, and study of, the 10 Commandments—or, more accurately, in translation from the Hebrew original, the 10 Statements.
1)
"Shavuot.
Chag Shavuot Sameach.
The core of this holiday is the reading of, and study of, the 10 Commandments—or, more accurately, in translation from the Hebrew original, the 10 Statements.
1)
First Statement (Exodus 20:2):
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
This identifies the relationship between HaShem and the Jewish nation, and further, it identifies the ownership of Torah—the Jewish people.
2)
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
This identifies the relationship between HaShem and the Jewish nation, and further, it identifies the ownership of Torah—the Jewish people.
2)
Therefore, only Jewish interpretations of its contents in the original language are fully valid. Believe it or not, no other nation was brought out of Egypt.
Second Statement (Exodus 20:3–6):
You shall have no other gods besides Me.
3)
Second Statement (Exodus 20:3–6):
You shall have no other gods besides Me.
3)
The Second part
Recently, some online pages have spread claims that all historical churches and monasteries of the Syrian coast were originally “Gnostic-esoteric institutions,” and that Byzantine crosses and inscriptions are hidden secret codes.
Recently, some online pages have spread claims that all historical churches and monasteries of the Syrian coast were originally “Gnostic-esoteric institutions,” and that Byzantine crosses and inscriptions are hidden secret codes.
These claims are not supported by archaeological or historical evidence, and they ignore the documented history of the Antiochian Orthodox tradition in the Syrian coast, expressed through its liturgy, language, and continuity.
Historically, known Gnostic (apocryphal) texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Philip were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945, inside clay jars, not in the Syrian coastal region.
